Hi Dan, On Thu, 8 May 2014 11:44:12 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > These days most people use git to send patches so I have added a section > about that. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > v2: Fixed changelog > > diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt > index 4e30eba..9004a5fd 100644 > --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt > +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt > @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ > Email clients info for Linux > ====================================================================== > > +Git > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > +These days most developers use `git send-email` instead of regular > +email clients. On the receiving end, maintainers use `git am` to > +apply the patches. > + > +If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself. Save it > +as raw text including all the headers. Run `cat raw_email.txt | git am` > +and then review the changelog with `git log -p`. When that works then Also the -p option is not needed for just checking the changelog IMHO. If one needs to check the patch itself too, I think `git show` is slightly better since it only shows the single commit applied. Thanks, Namhyung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
